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  • Thumbnail for Oil platform
    An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
    54 KB (6,164 words) - 14:19, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offshore drilling
    Offshore drilling is a mechanical process where a wellbore is drilled below the seabed. It is typically carried out in order to explore for and subsequently...
    18 KB (2,092 words) - 11:16, 15 May 2024
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    g., offshore. The process of modern drilling for wells first started in the 19th century but was made more efficient with advances to oil drilling rigs...
    38 KB (5,193 words) - 09:04, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Blowout (well drilling)
    oil or gas fire. Prior to the advent of pressure control equipment in the 1920s, the uncontrolled release of oil and gas from a well while drilling was...
    46 KB (4,771 words) - 18:25, 13 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offshore oil and gas in California
    Offshore oil and gas in California provides a significant portion of the state's petroleum production. Offshore oil and gas has been a contentious issue...
    22 KB (2,459 words) - 13:11, 20 April 2023
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    semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles...
    71 KB (7,082 words) - 21:15, 20 April 2024
  • Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is an offshore drilling contractor. The company is headquartered in Katy, Texas, United States, and has major offices...
    8 KB (662 words) - 03:43, 4 February 2024
  • Drillship, a floating apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil platform, an apparatus for offshore oil drilling Oil well, a boring from which oil is extracted...
    535 bytes (51 words) - 02:56, 21 January 2024
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    structures (such as oil platforms, commonly called 'offshore oil rigs' even if they don't contain a drilling rig). The term "rig" therefore generally refers...
    15 KB (1,734 words) - 20:42, 2 April 2024
  • column-stabilized, semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, designed to drill subsea wells for oil exploration and production using an 18.75 in...
    48 KB (4,124 words) - 11:44, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offshore oil spill prevention and response
    Offshore oil spill prevention and response is the study and practice of reducing the number of offshore incidents that release oil or hazardous substances...
    21 KB (2,436 words) - 05:53, 16 December 2023
  • OCM – offshore construction manager OCS – offshore construction supervisor OCTG – oil country tubular goods (oil well casing, tubing, and drill pipe)...
    97 KB (11,918 words) - 08:59, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for United States offshore drilling debate
    The United States offshore drilling debate is an ongoing debate in the United States about whether, the extent to which, in which areas, and under what...
    17 KB (1,985 words) - 17:35, 6 April 2024
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    Transocean (redirect from Sonat Offshore)
    Transocean Ltd. is an American drilling company. It is the world's largest offshore drilling contractor based on revenue and is based in Vernier, Switzerland...
    31 KB (3,036 words) - 15:30, 12 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arctic Refuge drilling controversy
    The question of whether to drill for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) has been an ongoing political controversy in the United States...
    53 KB (6,183 words) - 21:39, 28 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manuel Lujan Jr.
    chairman of a White House task force studying offshore oil drilling, Lujan expressed his strong support for drilling off the California coast in a speech to...
    15 KB (1,599 words) - 22:32, 29 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Drilling fluid
    engineering, drilling fluid, also known as drilling mud, is used to aid the drilling of boreholes into the earth. Used while drilling oil and natural gas...
    34 KB (4,505 words) - 15:51, 29 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Offshore drilling on the Atlantic coast of the United States
    Offshore drilling for oil and gas on the Atlantic coast of the United States took place from 1947 to the early 1980s. Oil companies drilled five wells...
    22 KB (2,680 words) - 00:54, 6 April 2024
  • and submarines for the Indian Navy and offshore platforms and associated support vessels for offshore oil drilling. It also builds tankers, cargo bulk carriers...
    18 KB (1,558 words) - 05:12, 23 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Petroleum industry
    network for petroleum – relying upon oil tankers and pipelines. In 1949 the first offshore oil-drilling at Oil Rocks (Neft Dashlari) in the Caspian Sea...
    47 KB (4,703 words) - 13:39, 7 May 2024
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